Ep. 17: Olympics Preview With Gil Hanse

Fairway Rollin'

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4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2016

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Geoff Shackelford and Joe House discuss Jim Furyk's historic round of 58 and the Ryder Cup implications (10:00). Geoff gives his firsthand account of Rio and who to watch out for on the men's side (22:00). Then, golf course architect for the 2016 Olympic Games Gil Hanse joins to outline who his course favors (27:00) and the process behind preparing for golf's return to the games. Finally, House and Geoff wrap-up with their picks for the week and sleepers to keep an eye on (48:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Equipment junkies, listen up!
0:04.0	Our friends at Calloway now offer a rewards program.
0:09.0	So just like you collect hotel points for airline miles.
0:14.2	Callaway is offering points for things that you already do.
0:18.4	Attend a Callaway demo day, purchase some new clubs,
0:22.0	trade in old clubs, so on and so on, redeem your Callaway rewards
0:27.1	points at CallawayGolf.com for items like custom head covers golf balls or golf bags
0:35.6	visit Callaway Golf.com backslash rewards to sign up and start collecting those points.
0:44.2	We are live on tape from Rio de Janeiro,
0:51.4	home of the 2016 Olympic Games and we will be talking to the architect of the Rio Olympic Golf Course Gill hands plus making our picks kicking around the big news about Nike getting out of the equipment business and of course Jim
1:03.9	Furex epic record setting 58 on the PGA tour. How else how you doing today?
1:10.2	I am awesome Jeff Schackleford before we get going with this brand new episode of the
1:14.8	shack house I have to interject a personal experience I had yesterday how many
1:21.2	whole and ones have you seen Jeff? How many have you been personally in attendance for?
1:27.0	Three. Three. And how many of those are yours?
1:31.0	One. Oh, good. And it was a... And how many of those are yours? A one.
1:34.0	Oh, good.
1:35.0	And it was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
1:38.0	And that makes me feel better.
1:40.0	That means we're essentially equal.
1:43.3	I also have a whole and one and it was nearly 20 years ago.
1:46.8	Oh good. Yeah, mine was even longer and I do have a double eagle.
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